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Mount Coolum

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mount Coolum

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mount Coolum National Park

    National park in Australia

    800 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Mount Coolum

Airports
Sunshine Coast (MCY), 3 km · Brisbane (BNE), 91 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 169 km
  • Brisbane → Mount Coolum
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · A$14–18
    GuideToday
  • Toowoomba → Mount Coolum
    158 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · A$28–38
    GuideToday
  • Gold Coast → Mount Coolum
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · A$23–31
    GuideToday
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mount Coolum

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mount Coolum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Sunshine Coast, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    151 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,817 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,933 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,411 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,921 km

If you know how people move in Mount Coolum – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Mount Coolum

Mount Coolum is 10 km from Sunshine Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Coolum Beachsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3.7 km
  • Marcoolatown in Queensland, Australia2.1 km
  • Maroochydorestate electoral district of Queensland, Australia3.9 km
  • Point Arkwrightsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia2 km
  • Yaroombasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia2 km
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